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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Readathon Hour 20: Picture It! Mini Challenge

Hello, Readathon participants, and congratulations on making it to Hour 20! You're almost there!

Unless you've chosen to focus on scriptless comics, you've spent the day immersed in words, words, words. This hour, I'd like you to step away from words long enough to find a picture that somehow relates to your current read.

Choose an image that makes you think of the main character, an important plot twist, the book's theme, the setting, or any other story-related element that triggers your imagination. I ask that you don't use cover or interior art or a still from a film adaptation--that's just too easy, yeah?--but anything else is fair game.

Please make sure your selection is free and legal to use, and be sure to credit the artist or photographer. Flickr's creative commons archive is a great place to search for images in the public domain, as is the WANA Commons.

Once you have an image, tell us how it relates to your book via a blog post, tweet, or Instagram post. If you don't use social media (or if it's just too late in the 'thon to worry about crap like that), you can post your explanation and a link to your picture in the comments here.

An example: earlier today, I read THE LAST GOOD KNIGHT, a serial by Tiffany Reisz. The serial made me think of knights, for obvious reasons, so I hunted through Flickr's creative commons and found a trio of fearsome Lego knights photographed by Andrew Becraft:

Now it's your turn! Make sure you comment below with a link to your blog post, tweet, or Instagram account. One randomly selected participant will win a set of eight vintage postcards featuring gardens from around the world, plus 50 cancelled stamps with plants on them.

The challenge will run until the end of the Readathon. I'll contact the winner whenever I wake up. :)

Long link as well...sorry. The book I'm reading now is set in near the Puget Sound and it seems like it's going to play a big role in the plot. I haven't made it extremely far in the book yet, so I'll see. But the dark stormy sky and kind of rough water fits the under lying feelings of something about to happen in the book perfectly. I'm currently reading Creep by Jennifer Hillier. Sorry for typos or weird sentences that may or may not make sense.

The Ersatz Elevator , by Lemony Snicket kids went down an elevator shaft, so here is picture of an elevator shaft.--could you ever climb down one of those things?--https://www.flickr.com/photos/soymaligno/2996585650

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